Mogg-Johnsons will betray their Brexit fans

The regions that shouted loudest for Leave will do worst out of it but they’ll get no help from their Tory cheerleaders

The question yet to be asked, after the slow leaking of the Brexit assessments, is when Jacob Rees-Mogg or Boris Johnson plans to visit Brambles and Thorntree on the east side of Middlesbrough. Or perhaps Boston or Canvey Island or Skegness. Can the good people of Ashfield, Walsall and Grimsby gather in civic halls to hear how their comrades in the cause, the Mogg-Johnsons, plan to improve their lives? These places voted in the greatest number to leave the European Union. They did so because they felt ignored and duly, after pocketing their votes, the Mogg-Johnsons have ignored them.

The Brexit regional assessments suggest that the EU referendum brought a new wisdom into politics. The sagest counsel used to be that it was the economy,…